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Familia5:la Tenebrionites/ 



Antennse breviufculae moniliformes^ fub 

 margine elevato capitis infertoe, extror- 

 furn paullo croiTiores. Manclibula valida 

 cornea, maxiilam non tegens. Corpus 

 oblongum vel ovatuin, duriufculum, fcu- 

 tellatum. 



t E N E B R I O, 



Pafpi In&quatefi ttrtictifo uliimo paidlo crafjtori 

 ovato^ truncafo. Mnxilta bifida. Liguta co- 



riacea^ apicr, dilaio.tr, , truncata^ integra. Cor~ 

 pus elongatum. Tnorax fub + quadratus , plc- 

 rumqite tatitudine elytrorum* 



i. T. molitor: lineari-eldngatus nigro-pi- 

 ceus fub • nitidus , fubtus ruf o - ferrugineus, 

 elytris obfolete it-riato-pundhtis, femori- 

 bus anticis brevibus. 

 Linn. fijft. 2. 672. 2. Fn. Sv. Jij. Fabr. ettut. 

 1. 145. S. Oliv. ent. 3. 57. /2. 13. Tab. 

 1. /. 12. a, b, c. Ittig. cot bor. 1. 113. /. 

 De Geer In/. 5. 34- 3- Tab z > /• 4 - '4- 

 Payk.. fn. 1. gp. 3- P^nz. fn. 43. f. 12. 

 Schbnh. Jynon. 1. 14$. p. 

 Var. b, fupra fnfo-piceus, fubtus dilutius 

 ferrugineus. 



* Habitat in quisquilils intra dombs, in farina 

 piftorum, molendinis, non infrequens. 



Defcr* 



